Author:
Boulter, Jonathan, 1967- author.
ImprintEdinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
Imprint2019
Descriptionviii, 222 pages ; 25 cm.
Note:Introduction : Beckett, Heidegger, the world -- 1. Homelessness : The expelled, The calmative, The End -- 2. The poverty of world : Texts for nothing -- 3. Spaces of ruin : All strange away, Imagine dead imagine, The lost ones, Ping, Lessness -- 4. Space and trauma : Fizzles -- 5. Fables of posthuman space : Company, Ill seen ill said, Worstward ho -- Conclusion : 'neither'.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-216) and index.
Note:"Jonathan Boulter offers the reader a way of understanding Beckett's presentation of the posthuman subject in his short prose. These texts are utterly compelling yet notoriously difficult because of Beckett's radical dismantling of the idea of the human. They offer an image of a being who may be posthumous, or at least existing in a state of nostalgia for what has been lost, yet the narrators still find themselves placed within material, recognisable, spaces. This book explores what the idea of 'world' can mean to a subject who appears to have moved into a material, even ecological, space that is beyond categories of life and death, being and world." --Back cover.
